Is There a Difference Between Good Science and Bad Science?

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There's no easy answer because we're drowning in shoddy, half-baked science claims. I just endorse complete nihilism about everything else we can do. You need to arm yourself with some of the sort of cautionary tales. Every time you get a result that's self satisfying, that to me is a warning sign.

Over the past decades, many social science studies have promised simple answers to complex problems. In his latest book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills, Singal describes how many of these solutions fail because the findings they are based on turn out to be wrong or misleading.

In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Jesse Singal sit down to discuss the reproducibility crisis in social science, whether to be skeptical about implicit bias training, and how to differentiate real solutions from illusory quick fixes.

A written transcript of this conversation is available on persuasion.community

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